Unnamed star, who allegedly paid a teenager for sexually explicit images, has also been reported to the police
The BBC needs to get its “house in order” or else there could be “collateral victims”, Chalk has said. He has told BBC Breakfast:
I’m pleased to hear that such serious and concerning allegations are being discussed with the police today. That is fine, but I think – in the fullness of time – there will need to be a careful review about the chronology of this. What happened, when?
I’m not going to cast aspersions because I don’t have all that information. But time is of the essence because it is not fair on victims, it is not fair on people who could be implicated and it is not fair on the BBC, which does an important job. I’m not here, as it were, to bash the BBC.
What it means very simply is this: When serious and concerning allegations are made, they need to be investigated promptly and commensurate with the seriousness of them. If the reports are to be believed, even if they are half as serious as are alleged, then you would expect the BBC to respond promptly.
This is quite a difficult, nuanced legal issue. I’m not going to criticise them at this stage because it will depend on all sorts of things.
So, for example, if an allegation were made against you and it was of an extremely serious nature, then I don’t think it would necessarily be appropriate to name you immediately until there had been a full investigation.
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